A team of PDSB educators committed to excellence in the English classroom by providing opportunities for dialogue, resources, and professional development.
Attention all PDSB English Teachers! PEN will be hosting a virtual PL session on Wednesday Nov 4th. 4-5:30pm. We are excited to share our ideas. Created in collaboration with FCB. Sign up on Google Classroom! Code: 2ahbri4
On September 23 hear from Dr. Dena Simmons, the Asst Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an Assoc Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center about how Ts can create equitable and anti-racist teaching practices & environments
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We're thrilled to announce that our Sept Plots & Pandemic event is with @farzanadoctor! This virtual meet & greet is free and interactive! Limited spacing. Sept 20, 1-2 pm EDT. To register, email us info@theauthorsbookclub.ca #theauthorsbookclub#NewRelease#canlit#diversecanlit
Writers in the house! Check out this free Arts for Change workshop with spoken word artist, @LifeAsWali, Elizabeth Glen-Copeland and Gloria O'Koye. September 16 from 7-8:30 ✍️🎙️ Register at virtual programs here 👉💻 tickets.brampton.ca/Online/d…
Book lovers! Have you looked at the @FoldKids booklist for this year’s festival? Purchase any of the books on this list from @AnotherStoryTO between now & October 4 & get FREE SHIPPING anywhere in Canada. Sponsored by @SimonSchusterCA!
ALT A graphic advertising the free shipping promotion for book purchases at the 2020 FOLD Kids Book Fest.
ALT Children’s Book list for the 2020 FOLD Kids Book Fest. For details, please email info@thefoldcanada.org
The schedule is open and registration is now LIVE for #FOLDKids2020! Head to thefoldcanada.org/register to get your spots at our first ever VIRTUAL festival for FOLD Kids! 🎉🎉🎉
Haven’t even listened to this treat yet but I know it will be 🔥🔥🔥🔥& I’ll return to it again & again - Liberating Literature in Our Classrooms and Libraries with @juliaerin80 Pushing The Edge pushingtheedge.org/liberatin… via @GregBCurran
For #DisabilityPrideMonth, we invite everyone to revisit these words from FOLD alum @depalm. #CanLit, it's time for change. How can we go about motivating others--and ourselves--to ensure accessibility in our spaces and a truly just world? #MondayMotivation
ALT A photo of author Dorothy Ellen Palmer--senior white woman in a wheelchair--with white text: We can't take a seat at the table if we can't get to the table. Until CanLit is willing to reassess the physical structures in buildings and make their events accessible, they're keeping people like me out.
Have you pub’d a poem/flash in a journal that’s now defunct & struggling to pub it as a reprint? We’ll consider it. #submit to the appropriate category & type #reprint the title in the subject line. Be sure to tell us where it was 1st printed. Be Well. Write Well. Read Well.
Wish I was seeing more promotion of Camp Possible, a virtual summer camp opportunity for @PeelSchools students with special education needs. Registration opens Monday. Camp begins Wednesday. So many options to choose from. And it’s free! @ParkholmeSchool
Aspiring & emerging kidlit authors! Registration for PITCH PERFECT at @FoldKids 2020 is NOW OPEN! Pitch Perfect will be virtual this year & is open to writers across Canada! Applications accepted until 11:59pm on August 1. FAQs & application form here: thefoldcanada.org/uncategori…
ALT A graphic showcasing a friendly blue cartoon monster reading a book. Text reads PITCH PERFECT AT FOLD KIDS BOOK FEST. DEADLINE: AUGUST 1, 2020 at 11:59pm.